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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Author Archives: Rick Mason
Harry Potter and the Unfair Use Lexicon
TeleRead has an excellent post dissecting the recent ruling against the author of the Harry Potter Lexicon. It examines the Fair Use aspects of copyright as they apply to this particular case. via LISNews
Posted in Books, Copyright, News, Publishing
Tagged Author, Copyright, Fair Use, harry potter, harry potter lexicon, Publishing
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Kete
Kete is billed as a combination of a digital archive, a content management system, and collaboration tools meant to allow the storage, control, and access of digital content. Developed as an outgrowth of the Koha project, Kete has a pedigree … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software
Tagged collaboration tools, content management system, Kete, koha
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Google Chrome
Exciting news in the browser wars: Google is releasing has released a beta version of a web browser that it is calling Chrome. Why does this matter? The open-source browser will feature: Every tab running in isolation from the other … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, News, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Chrome, Google, online software, screen capture;, web applications, web browser, web browsers;, web version;
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SOPAC 2.0 @ Darien Library
After much anticipation, version 2.0 of the Social Opac (SOPAC) went live this morning at the Darien Library in Connecticut. It looks very good… excellent, in fact. I am already looking forward to playing with this version of the software. … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, OPAC, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Connecticut, Darien Library, html, John Blyberg, search result page, SOPAC
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Lakes and Rivers
Lorcan Demsey has a post on metadata that does a great job of illustrating two types of data collections by describing them as lakes and rivers. The idea did not originate with him; rather he encountered it via OCLC’s Eric … Continue reading
Posted in Cataloging, Classification, Definitions, History, Libraries, OCLC
Tagged analog, Eric Hellman, Heraclitus, lakes, Lorcan Demsey, rivers, Rivers Lorcan Demsey
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Free Starbucks Coffee Recipes
Coffee and Libraries go together (at least for some of us who are addicts of both). That is why the Free Starbucks Coffee Recipe E-Book (direct link to zipped Pdf file) is a nifty download brought to you by CoffeeFair. … Continue reading
Dead Sea Scrolls going Online
In an example of how much open access may change scholarship, it was announced the Dead Sea Scrolls will be scanned in high resolution and made available online and open access. As more primary sources are made available for study, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Online Databases, Open Access, Translation
Tagged dead sea scrolls, israel, online and open access;, Online In;, Open Access, scholarship, Sea Scrolls
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Three Great Book Repair Guides
A Simple Book Repair Manual is a web-based guide created and hosted by the Dartmouth College Library. It covers what a library needs to set up a toolkit and make straightforward repairs. Conservation Book Repair : A training manual by … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Language, Libraries, Online Services, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Alaska Heritage Museum, Artemis BonaDea, book repair, Conservation Technician, Curator, Dartmouth College Library, Dartmouth College;, Stanford University, web-based guide
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Make Your Own Mini Read Poster
There is now a READ Mini Poster creation tool on the American Library Association web site which lets you upload a photo into one of four templates. This is a neat offering, with a couple of caveats: The positioning tool … Continue reading
The Great Influenza Pandemic
The Great Pandemic : The United States in 1918-1919 is a single resource on a specific topic, but it presents it very well. Created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it focuses on personal stories from influenza … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Government, Online Services
Tagged CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Haskell County, influenza, Kansas;, pandemic, United States
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Putting some CC into your RSS
Great post over at RSS4Lib about placing Creative Commons licensing information into your RSS feed. This is a fantastic idea because the entire purpose of RSS is to let others have control over how they receive your content. This allows … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Copyright, Licensing, Web Design
Tagged creative commons, RSS
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Beloit College Mindset List
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2012 has been posted! A couple of samples: 28. IBM has never made typewriters. 60. Students always had Goosebumps. What library-related items can be added to this list? The absence of … Continue reading
Issuu PDF Publisher
Issuu (not a typo) is a new PDF web publishing service, and it is a very good service. You can upload a document in PDF format, and Issuu presents it in a reader that is both intuitive and easy to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged excellent services;, Google, issuu, pdf, web publishing service, web publishing;
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Oil and Journals
Mike Dunford writing in of The Questionable Authority has written a post that compares the business model and profits of journal publishers with oil companies. One figure that he arrives at is shocking, to say the least, but also illustrative … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Access, Periodicals, Publishing
Tagged Exxon;, Gas prices, journal prices, Mike Dunford, Mobil, oil;, Open Access, Questionable Authority, USD
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Creative Commons Upheld
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld (pdf) the Creative Commons License as valid, as well as establishing its relationship to copyright law. Basically, if someone uses a work in violation of a Creative Commons … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Licensing
Tagged Copyright, creative commons, United States Court of Appeals
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Getting The Most Out Of Your Library
Getting The Most Out Of Your Library is an article from the Digital Web Magazine. The article is great: a basic guide for techies on the resources found in many libraries (from Art and Graphics books, coffee kiosks, and online … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Web Design
Tagged designer, Digital Web Magazine, the Digital Web Magazine, Web Design, Web Magazine, Your Library
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Creative III Shelf Browse Hack
Saw a shelf browse created for an Innovative (III) OPAC that is quite neat. It lives on a development site for the Cambridge Public Library in Ontario, Canada and integrates Syndetic Solutions book covers into a pseudo-shelf listing. Here is … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Software, Web Design
Tagged API, Cambridge Public Library, Canada, html, III, Innovative Interfaces Inc, Mike Cunningham, Ontario, Syndetic Solutions;, web presence
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Web Browser Insecurity
Understanding the Web Browser Threat is an essay that details web users and the browsers they use. The primary focus is on how current one’s browser version is, as opposed to evaluating one browser against others. It is too little … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Open Source, Software
Tagged firefox, web browser, Web Browser Threat;, web users;
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Manual of Traffic Signs
One of my lesser known interests is road signs. I enjoy looking through various Rules of the Road sign pages, odd signs found on various roads, and pictures of road signs in foreign countries. Making sense of some of the … Continue reading
Unidentified Decedent Reporting System
This is one of those resources which you hope will not have to be used, but when it helps someone find the information they need, it can be invaluable: The Unidentified Decedent Reporting System (Warning: site is definitely not for … Continue reading
Posted in Death, Medical, Online Databases, Online Services, Search
Tagged doe network, National Association of Medical Examiners, unidentified decedent reporting system
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